The Historical Context of the Modern Opium War

During the times of Nawab Siraj ud-Dawlah (rule from 1752 – 1757 A.D.) as the Mughal Governor of Bengal and Bihar and other Muslim rulers preceding him, Bengal was Indiaâ€کs most agricultural region. Every village had a fishing lake of its own, and they used to cultivate their own farms and grow their own agricultural produce. Bengal was very prosperous, in fact it was known as the "Granary of India", since the agricultural goods were cultivated there and then distributed all over India. The people of Bengal were content and at ease.
However the British East India Company arrived and initiated an era of exploitation. The British did not purposely come to rule in the beginning, but neither were they merely merchants; they were exploiters and dacoits. They did not even dream that they could invade such a big country as India, but just planned to exploit as many opportunities as were available in the region. They were aware that the Mughal dynasty would not let them continue there after they had created so much havoc. However, due to their luck and Muslim Indiaâ€کs ill fate, the central government of India had become very weak at that time.
After defeat and death of Nawab Siraj ud-Dawlah in 1757 in the Battle of Plassey, the British had started cultivating only two crops in Bengal. It was prohibited for local farmers to grow food crops there; they had to grow only cash crops. One was the Indigo crop, from which dyes were made for the textile industry. The other was opium. We will now discuss why they were cultivating opium and what they did with it. This is a historic aspect still not found in any history books. The extent of the destruction and chaos that they spread is not taught to children in schools.
This was a time when Indiaâ€کs neighbor, China, was a prosperous, civilized nation. When the British East India Company reached this area, they started purchasing numerous commodities from China, which they could promote in Europe and make huge sums of profit. These items included porcelain, silk and mostly tea. They were very much in demand in Europe during those times, and were expensive. The British began trading with China using Bengal as their base. China took payment in Gold and Silver. The balance of trade was such that only Britain was buying from China. China did not have to buy anything from outside; they were a major civilization and were quite self-sufficient, content and prosperous. They neither wanted nor needed anything from Europe.

China's "Century of Humiliation"
It will be made clear beyond doubt that the British were corrupt rogues. They plotted to get the Chinese addicted to drugs like opium. As drug culture spread in China, the British produced drugs in Bengal and sold them to China and bought the commodities that they required from there. They tried to tilt the balance of trade with China in their own favor. In other words, drug trade by the East India Company and the British Empire started operating officially. The British government gave the Company complete protection including warships, army forces etc. British revenue going to China in the form of gold and silver was being returned to the company with higher profits through the sale of drugs.
This, however, was not being done without the approval of the Chinese government. The government of China did impose a ban on opium smuggling at that time. The items that the East India Company was purchasing were legally documented commodities like porcelain, silk, tea etc, but they wished to create a more favorable balance of trade there through whatever means. The British violated the ban and smuggled opium into China. They developed the worldâ€کs largest drug cartel and flooded China with drugs. They forced the Bengali farmers to grow opium and banned them from cultivating food crops. On one side the way was paved for famine and drought due to which millions of people were exterminated, and on the other, at least 20 million Chinese died due to drug usage within only a few years. They killed millions of Chinese and Bengalis within a span of 20-30 years. It is impossible to imagine another such horrifying picture in history, anywhere from the time of martyrdom of Siraj ud Dawlah in 1757 to 1857 when the First War of Independence to liberate India from British colonialism took place.
The Chinese Emperor banned drug smuggling by the 1830s and dealt very strictly with the smugglers. They were not permitted to come anywhere near Chinese waters by ship and their trade was thus closed. As a result, the British Empire opened hostilities and sent in warships. The ensuing wars are called "The Opium wars" in history.
The Opium Wars, also known as the Anglo-Chinese Wars, divided into the First Opium War from 1839 to 1842 and the Second Opium War from 1856 to 1860, were the climax of disputes over trade and diplomatic relations between China under the Qing Dynasty and the British Empire.
British and United States merchants who were mostly Zionist Jews Mafia groups brought opium from the British East India Company's factories in Patna and Banaras, in the Bengal Presidency of British India, to the coast of China, where they sold it to Chinese smugglers who distributed the drug in defiance of Chinese laws. Aware both of the drain of gold and silver and the growing numbers of addicts, the Dao Guang Emperor demanded action.
In 1838, the Emperor sent Lin Zexu to Guangzhou where he quickly arrested Chinese opium dealers and summarily demanded that foreign firms turn over their stocks. When they refused, Lin stopped trade altogether and placed the foreign residents under virtual siege, eventually forcing the merchants to surrender their opium to be destroyed. In response, the British government sent expeditionary forces from India which ravaged the Chinese coast and dictated the terms of settlement. The Treaty of Nanking signed in 1842 not only opened the way for further opium trade, but ceded territory including Hong Kong, unilaterally fixed Chinese tariffs at a low rate, granted extraterritorial rights to foreigners in China which were not offered to Chinese abroad, a most favored nation clause, as well as diplomatic representation. When the Chinese government refused to accept the trade clauses of the Treaty of Nanking, the British Empire imposed the Second Opium War and the Treaty of Tientsin on China.
These treaties, soon followed by similar arrangements with the United States and France, later became known as the Unequal Treaties and the Opium Wars as the start of China's "Century of humiliation."
The effects on Chinese society were devastating. In fact, there are few periods in Chinese history that approach the early nineteenth century in terms of pure human misery and tragedy. In an effort to stem the tragedy, the imperial government made opium illegal in 1836 and began to aggressively close down the opium dens. In 1839, the emperor issued 39 articles which imposed extremely severe punishments, including death, for smoking and trading opium. When Lin gave the order that Canton should be completely closed to foreign trade, the British opened hostilities and started the Opium War. China, with its backward army, was overwhelmed and backed down. Commissioner Lin was recalled in disgrace and sent to exile in the Northwest. The first of the unequal treaties, the Treaty of Nanjing was signed. First Opium War from 1839 to 1842 ended with China losing in shame.
The Opium War, also called the Anglo-Chinese War, was the most humiliating defeat China ever suffered. It is perhaps the most sordid, base, and vicious event in European history. By the 1830's, the English had become the major drug-trafficking criminal organization in the world; very few drug cartels of the twentieth century can even touch the England of the early nineteenth century in sheer size of criminality. Growing opium in India, the East India Company shipped tons of opium into Canton which it traded for Chinese manufactured goods and for tea. This trade had produced, quite literally, a country filled with drug addicts, as opium parlors proliferated all throughout China in the early part of the nineteenth century. This trafficking, it should be stressed, was a criminal activity after 1836, but the British traders generously bribed Canton officials in order to keep the opium traffic flowing.
The foundation of British Empire in the Far East was built on drugs. The largest drug peddlers of the world were the British. Chinese authorities tried to stop the drug trade numerous times. In the Second Opium War from 1856 to 1860, the Chinese were again defeated. The British then got access to all the major cities of China, even Shanghai, and drugs flowed all over.
British were far more technologically advanced, and China was defeated. As a result, they invaded and captured Hong Kong. Hong Kong Island gained independence from the British in 1997 and was given back to China after 159 years. The British made Hong Kong their base, and gathered goods there and smuggled them into China. Now that China had been defeated, the treaty it had to agree to was completely unjust; China had to open all her ports and markets to the British; it had to grant them permission to enter Chinese cities, make trading posts in China and gather drugs such as opium etc and promote them. In other words, the Chinese emperor could only helplessly watch the entire nation get addicted to drugs. The situation became so bad that the East India Company was buying tea worth thousands and selling opium worth millions. The balance of trade had been completely reversed.
The British do not disclose this aspect of their history, which shows how they got China addicted to drugs and how they spread their own western civilization there. There were Zionists involved in all this, and they had no sympathies towards the Western Christian society. This was the period when the industrial revolution was at its peak in the west. They needed industrial laborers to work. The pace of life had become extremely fast for the times. People were working shifts, industrial goods were being produced, and the western empire was stretched over most parts of the world. In such conditions, when people needed to rest and sleep, they introduced drugs into the western society and prescribed these 'medicines' for relaxation, just as people take drugs or smoke with a pretence to 'relax' today. They researched and introduced opium and its pharmaceutical derivatives into the market. It is surprising to know that heroin was made from opium as a pharmaceutical drug, by mixing opium with acetic anhydride. Even cocaine was developed in their laboratories. As they had been newly introduced in Europe there were no drug laws to prevent their circulation. For almost 60 years therefore, doctors, clinics and pharmaceutical companies were advertising cocaine, morphine, heroin etc. in American and European newspapers!
During those times people were not aware of the long term negative effects of drugs. Whenever a new product is introduced into a society, it takes almost 20 to 30 years to make obvious its reaction, side effects, the social violations it causes etc. The European and American societies started adopting these drugs, and by the 1920s thousands of people in the West were addicted to them. The crime mafia syndicates that were supplying them were primarily Jewish. Any research would prove them to be Jewish syndicates. The Russian mafia was Jewish, the New York mafia was Jewish and the East India Company was the primary supplier.
When the British defeated the Chinese and put them on drugs, China also became the hub of global opium production and the source of the drugs being distributed throughout the world. Drugs were banned in American and European societies during the 1920s when the civil societies and religious communities here carried out numerous protests once they realized and understood their harmful effects. People demanded a complete ban. Now, when there is such a huge supply of a commodity and a correspondingly huge demand for it in the consumer market, and then one day it is banned, it does not become extinct; it goes underground. This was the period when underground drug syndicates were being formed. The drug mafias emerged when legalized drugs were made illegal overnight. From then on till today, the trade of illegal drugs that is spread around the world is conducted by illegal underground cartels.
All present-day economies deal in three commodities worth billions of dollars. The major one is energy. Oil deals are worth trillions of dollars. The second is weapons, which are traded in billions and trillions of dollars around the world. Both of them are legal markets, and their trade and exchange is done in the open, over the table. The third major commodity is drugs. The UN estimates that they constitute an economy of around 500 billion to 1 trillion dollars. When there is such a huge market, and it is underground and controlled by crime mafia, one can only imagine the extent of the mafiaâ€کs power and how it can control the people and the banking system. Where do all these dollars go? They are recycled through the western Zionist banking system.
The drugs were being illegally produced in China and other countries in the Far East such as Thailand, Burma, Laos and Vietnam. If one observes, these were the regions that were in conflict with communism after World War II. First the French went into Vietnam, and then the Americans entered Burma, Vietnam, Laos and Thailand. The whole region itself was called "The Golden Triangle" because of the cultivation of drugs there. The CIA was supporting the local guerillas that were fighting against communism. It is quite apparent that the CIA is the worldâ€کs largest drug cartel, drug dealer, drug manipulating agency and drug transporting agency, and carries out these activities under the pretext of 'fundraising'. This has been proven and there are books written on this subject for example a book titled “The Politics of Heroinâ€‌.
Drug money is not something that has an audit or account, nor does it need any approval from the Congress. The secret account that has been allotted to the CIA to pressurize and overturn governments around the world, and to prepare forces for covert operations with the approval of the US law, is based on the drug economy. They launched an airline in Vietnam known as "Air America", on the pretext of supporting the militia there. However the actual task of the airline was to carry drugs being exported by the guerillas that were fighting communists in these countries, and sell them to the international drug cartels.
The CIA is a crime syndicate. It was established for these reasons. The mandate of the CIA was to operate crime gangs, terrorist outfits and all such organizations that spread destruction and terror around the world. All the activities that cannot be carried out legally according to western law, like the instigation of revolutions, transportation of drugs from one place another etc, are organized by the CIA.

Tipu Sultan (1750-1799), the Great Hero of India
We will now go back into history and discuss Tipu Sultan who became ruler of Mysore state in 1783 of India. There is an aspect of Tipu Sultan that presented heroic resistance against the expansion of the British East India Company. He deployed many military, political and diplomatic strategies which were not used by any rulers before him, Mughal or otherwise. It is important to study him because he organized such resistance against the British for the first time.
By location, Bengal is in the east and Mysore in the south. In 1757 after Siraj ud Dawlah was defeated and Bengal was robbed of its resources, the British turned their attention towards other areas such as Mysore. Haider Ali, Tipuâ€کs father, was the ruler of Mysore at the time. Tippu Sultan who succeeded his father in 1783 resisted the British expansion in India by defending India in four wars which are called as Anglo-Mysore Wars.
If we analyze history thoroughly it was also the time when the American war of Independence, led by George Washington, was being fought against the British across the Atlantic.
The British Empire was also fighting for colonial expansion in India. This is a phenomenon known as "Imperial Overstretch"; when the imperial super-power overestimates itself, and is rendered unable to capture and maintain hold over everything. The British had two options; to either concentrate on America or on India. They were experiencing strong resistance from the Americans and were gradually suffering defeat; they lost 13 colonies on the east coast. They were so intensely affected by this loss that urgency developed in the British Empire, and they decided to concentrate on the Indian subcontinent. A point of interest here is that the Americans were so impressed by the resistance to the British exhibited by Haider Ali and Tipu Sultan in India, that they named one of their battle ships "USS Haider Ali" as both their enemies were the same. It is highly amusing to hear of an American battle ship called “USS Haider Aliâ€‌.
Though Haider Ali was illiterate, he was valiant, courageous, sensible and a man of honor. He brought up his son Tipu, providing him with the highest education. Tipu was a scholar, a judge and a proper statesman. Tipuâ€کs strategies of resistance were so commendable that one will not find anyone like him anywhere in India during that time. Tippu Sultan developed trade relations with Ottoman Turkey, France, Iran, Afghanistan and China.
Tipu was aware of Bengalâ€کs plight, and how the British were responsible for it. He also knew the Mughal Empire was getting weaker, and the Mughals could not give him any assistance. Tipu Sultan then sent his messengers for help to the Ottoman Empire, which was a strong Muslim empire at the time. However when the messenger reached Istanbul, he died there. His grave is still there in Istanbul, and it is engraved on it that he was the messenger of Tipu Sultan who came from India to get help.
After this, Tipu extended trade relations and established trade routes with China. He imported the complete methodology of manufacturing silk from there and there are silk factories in Mysore even today. He established overseas trading posts in the Arabian Sea. The global balance of power was shifting at the time and the English were mounting high. Tipu was establishing the weapons industry and improvising military technology, and he invited the French for assistance. With their help he developed rifles with the flint-lock technology that was better than what the British had. He set up a naval fleet, and its ships were used to carry out trade and protect the coastline.
Tipu deployed the best of military and diplomatic strategies. Due to ill fate however, Muslim civilizations at the time were on the verge of decline. Corruption within the government, plots by the Marathas and treachery by Mir Sadiq, the minister in Tipu’s government speedily brought about the fall of Tipu Sultan, and he was defeated by the British. Upon the martyrdom of Tipu Sultan in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War in 1799, Lord Wellesley, the Governor General of the British East India Company stood by his body and declared that on this day, India had become theirs. Before, they had still been unsure whether or not they could capture India. Tipu Sultanâ€کs death signaled a total victory for the British East India Company. The British knew that the Mughal Empire was crumbling and there was now no Muslim leader or military general left in India who could stand against British military expansion.
Tipu Sultanâ€کs military strategy was so flawless that if he had not been cheated from within, he would have changed the course of history. He made major global alliances with nations such as China, France, the Ottoman Empire, the Middle East etc, developed technologies, established trading routes and initiated organized opposition to the British East India Company. Allah however had already deemed it the Muslimsâ€ک fate to suffer decline and enslavement. After Tipuâ€کs death, the British became free to do whatever they wished and so they plundered, robbed, and spread chaos. The fact to be underlined here is the importance of Tipu Sultanâ€کs preparations; his training and his vision, which was instilled in him by his father. These were not focused on at the time at all.
The period 1757 – 1857 was a very distressing one as millions of people were killed during this time. At the same time, there were the Opium wars between China and Britain. After the second Opium war, China was totally ruined. For almost the next 100 years, the entire Chinese nation was completely addicted to drugs, and could not escape from them.
In summary, the East India Company was a drug dealer which destroyed China by selling drugs there and making huge profits out of it. It then realized the great money-making potential of drugs and propagated them into Europe and America, and by the next 60 years, 1850 – 1910, they had introduced drugs into these two economies. The Americans and the Europeans began to face the same conditions as the Chinese were facing.
Jewish communities in foreign countries have always been separate with settlements of their own. All their institutions are separate from the mainstream. A scrutiny of The Protocols of Learned Elders of the Zion reveals that they have categorically mentioned that they will destroy the children of later generations and communities of non-Jews, and will protect their own nationâ€کs children from all the evil they spread. They target the whole world and its peoples with their nefarious designs, but do not involve their own in any of this. They restrict themselves specifically to their business. They plan clandestine operations around the world in order to survive. They are busy in surveillance, trading, selling weapons, overturning governments etc. They have gotten humanity addicted to drugs; and submerged it in wealth, trade, corruption, deception, the Zionist banking system and usury. They have caused the entire world to become tangled in such pursuits, and kept themselves safe at the top.
The Zionist Jews profited from the region encompassed by the golden triangle. After 1979 when the CIA got the chance to enter Afghanistan, they managed to procure yet another region where they could start the cultivation and production of drugs. During the Afghan Wars they created numerous assets there who could supply and deliver drugs, make profit for them and support their clandestine operations with that money. The funding did not consist of drug money only, but a substantial amount of it was involved.
Big drug dealers came into Pakistan and nearby areas. Opium was now an Afghan product. Opium becomes heroin after being mixed with a chemical called acetic anhydride. This chemical is manufactured in Europe and America. One strange occurrence has to be noted here; whenever the West operates in this area, they buy containers of this chemical from Europe and around the world, and send them to Afghanistan through the transit trade. Pakistan has a transit trade agreement with Afghanistan. Tons of acetic anhydride is shipped in containers that come to Pakistan and go on to Afghanistan through the Khyber Pass, without being opened and checked. Now the question is, does Europe not know why this acetic anhydride goes to Afghanistan? Another important point that has to be understood here is that if the security forces of Pakistan were not vigilant about these drugs coming into the country and seizing and burning them, then each child in Pakistan would have been smoking heroin cigarettes.
For example, during the invasion by the Soviet Union, a large factory was set up in Afghanistan for the production of drugs. The Afghan economy was destroyed and people were starving. During wars, when there is anarchy everywhere and food is not available, people move towards drugs without a choice, and it becomes a major problem for them. This was also a trap laid down by the West. They cultivated drugs and got the Russian army addicted to them. Tons of drugs were smuggled into Russia and Central Asia through the Russian army. The disintegration of Russia was largely due to the drugs the army was addicted to, due to which it was not fighting. Russian soldiers used to exchange ammunitions for drugs; this was a common scenario. Also, the CIA-sponsored drug cartels got an extra source of income from Afghanistan for their secret operations. Today, the Afghanistan drug economy has reached approximately 150 billion dollars.
The CIA is deliberately making Afghanistan cultivate drugs, and it has major strategic objectives. They devastated the Russian civilization in the same way. These drugs are being exported to China and all the Muslim nations to destroy their civilizations, cultures, foundations and religion in order to make them passive towards the wars they are initiating. Similarly they are sending drugs to Central Asia and the Russian countries; there is currently a major drug crisis in Russia. Drugs are also being distributed among the farmers in Afghanistan. Only less than 5% however go to America now and the rest of the 95% are sent to other countries. The 150 billion dollar economy that the crime syndicates are generating is fed into the Western Zionist banking system.
The West accuses other nations for small mistakes, but they themselves do the same on a much larger scale. There is no bank in the world that is not involved in drug money laundering, no bank that is not surviving on drugs. The western banking system exists on this money. The CIA organizes its international operations and is destroying civilizations with this money. Drug pathways are also the routes for AIDS to follow i.e. through injections and immoral means. When the CIA, the entire economic industry, the pharmaceuticals and the Zionist banking system support drug trafficking, how is it possible to contain it, even if our soldiers are trying their best? On one side they spend some millions to show us that they are doing something to control drug trafficking and on the other side they invest billions of dollars and earn the money back through drug trade. Some do understand what is happening and are fighting against it, but the outcome of their efforts is very slight.
They destroy nations by maintaining control over the economy, money supply, food supply, and by getting the population hooked to drugs. In the same way, they turned the Chinese into drug addicts for 100 years after the Opium Wars. Only after Mao Zedong came into power in 1948 was something done. He killed and imprisoned all the drug dealers, drug traffickers etc. China was clean within two to three years. Strict action must be taken against drugs, and drug traffickers. First and foremost those western companies must be dealt with that sell the chemical acetic anhydride to Afghanistan that is used in the drugs.
This strategy that the East India Company developed against China is now a full-fledged war sponsored by the CIA, Jewish syndicates and the Zionist banking system. The drug dealers that are caught and handed over to America are set free after a few weeks. This is a known fact because they are on the CIA payroll and have mutual deals, and are friends and partners in that business.